Customizing Spotlight

Spotlight can help you find almost anything stored on your iPad in an instant (just as long as you know what word to type to find that item). To make Spotlight work even faster or more accurately, you can define what items Spotlight should find and in what order Spotlight should search for those items.

For example, suppose you're a music collector and store thousands of songs on your iPad. Since finding a particular song may be more important than finding an audiobook or email message stored on your iPad, you can tell Spotlight to search only for music.

You can also customize the order that Spotlight searches for things. That way, if email messages are more important to you than audiobooks, tell Spotlight to search through ...

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